Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORIn a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
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Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
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I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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